Nights for Tuesday 19 July 2011
7:10 Our Own Odysseys: Roaming Romania
Suzanne Middleton and her partner John "freedom-camped" throughout Europe in an old builder's van and were particularly fond of their time in Romania.
Travel Magpie: Water for Chocolate - Seven Days in Romania.
Left: Suzanne Middleton in France after travelling for eight months and right: John Robilliard filling a water bottle in Turkey.
9:30 The Sampler
A weekly review and analysis of new CD releases.
8:15 Windows on the World
International public radio documentaries - visit the Windows on the World web page to find links to these documentaries.
8:40 The World At Night - Chile
Terri Anderson is our Kiwi-born correspondent living in rural Chile, pop. 17,094,270 (est. 2010)... funnily, the Puyehue volcano has not affected us at all, but there is chronic smog in Santiago; also students are fighting for education.
9:00 News and Weather
9:06 The Tuesday Feature: 2011 Auckland Writers & Readers Festival
Radio New Zealand has selected some of the most thought-provoking and entertaining sessions from one of New Zealand’s top celebrations of literature, the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival, for a five-part series of programmes from this week in our Sunday Feature slot. The encounters range from food to science by way of contemporary history, with speakers from the UK, India, USA, and the former Yugoslavia.
10:00 News and Weather
10:17 Late Edition
A review of the leading news from Morning Report, Nine to Noon, Afternoons and Checkpoint. Also hear the latest news from around the Pacific on Radio New Zealand International's Dateline Pacific.
11:06 Hidden Treasures
Trevor Reekie pays tribute to the late Gil Scott-Heron as well as digging up tracks from both The Yoots and The Yas Yas Girl and Sudanese visitors to WOMAD 2011, Rango.